Sounds like a buck-shot filled 12 gauge shotgun blast to the groin. In fact, I would say she gave him both barrels of a side by side or an over under.

What is missing from the article is what kind of treatment was given to the elderly woman because I know for a fact that my mother would be be in serious pain if she fired a 12 gauge shotgun, a high powered rifle, or any handgun bigger than .38 Special. In the case of my grandmother, any of those big guns would have broken a bone in the end whether it be a broken collar bone from the long gun kick and/or a broken hip from being knocked on her butt.

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